- Radar mag says Beyonce's skin appears to have been...

October 20, 2005

- Radar mag says Beyonce's skin appears to have been lightened on the current Vanity Fair cover, an allegation her spokeswoman denies. "There are very fair-skinned black people in this world, and Beyonce is one of them," Yvette Noel-Schure told "Access Hollywood." VF says the skin tone was not altered.

- A bidding war for an authorized biography of the "ideas" of business wizard Warren Buffett has been won by Bantam Dell Publishing Group. The book is scheduled to come out in 2008, and a representative close to the deal said it is worth more than $7 million.

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